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Wear a SUPPORT NY AFFILIATES button or t-shirt. Lug your bling around in a SUPPORT NY AFFILIATES tote bag or messenger bag.

Are you a merchant?

Got a booth at a trade show or Affiliate Summit? Decorate it with a "WE SUPPORT NEW YORK AFFILIATES" banner, poster or bumperstickers. Let all affiliates know that your program is NY State affiliate friendly.

Another idea is to keep this topic in the news, both online and offline. I have just fired off letters to the editors of all the local papers, both the major daily newwpapers and the small weekly & monthly local papers.

But arn't a lot of Cafepress Shops affiliated with NY Business that are owned by them. They have to collect tax regardless.

No Cafepress had no nexus in NYS and didn't collect NYS sales tax. But yes, you bring up a good point, Cafepress has shopkeepers in pretty much every state, that targets shoppers in the states they live in, so that may just establish nexus in almost any state.

If they read the tax law closer (I am going to reread parts of it also now) affiliates may be the least of their worries, the law states other types of online marketing falls into the establishment of nexus area.

1. Not all the same kinds of products available on Cafepress were available on Zazzle, so fewer product types are available for purchase but there's a much greater variety of styles and colors of t-shirts available.

2. Zazzle does not allow me to set up less than a 10% markup on items. I'll donate any profit I make on these products to a charity of my choosing (but suggestions are welcome).

No one has mentioned this idea for showing support for NY affiliates so again I lead the way with innovative ideas:

We establish a fund and all of us contrinbute monthly. The funds are then used to help NY affiliates relocate to a more affiliate friendly state!! I also have a few spare bedrooms at our place, so we can act as a covered wagon stop for those who wish to flee the tyranny of the N.E. and frontier their way west.

Don't ask me to explain where or how I come up with these life-changing inspirational ideas. Most here could never comprehend the process. Suffice it to say that I'm an Ideas kinda guy - it comes naturally to me!!